Creator of Yoon-Suin and other materials. Propounding my half-baked ideas on role playing games. Jotting down and elaborating on ideas for campaigns, missions and adventures. Talking about general industry-related matters. Putting a new twist on gaming.

Tuesday, 1 May 2018

Naacal Dancers in the Dreams of Ice

Groups
of Naacals came to the Dreams of Ice long ago in order to dance. There, with no
music to disturb the purity of their movements except the breath of the wind
and the crunching and creaking of the ice and snow; with nothing to influence
their thoughts or feelings except vistas of endless white; and with the
extremity of the cold forcing them to put themselves through ever-greater
exertions in the name of their art, they believed that they could ascend to
pinnacles of physical expression higher than they could possibly climb in the
Unremembered City.

Whether
any of them have achieved this is a matter of opinion. Over the eons each group
has, in its isolation, been through schism, revolution, counter-revolution, renaissance,
evolution, regression, and return-to-roots, each on many occasions, and has developed
innumerable eccentricities and formalities as a result. Over time the
obsessions of these groups of Naacal dancers have come to define them, and they
now typically no longer dance for enjoyment or even to hone their skills, but
rather because they remember how to do almost nothing else.